As one who has been blogging in the past, I realize that the most valuable purpose that my blogs have served is to provide me with a permanent record of my thoughts at any given time. As an educational leader, I can see how using a blog as a sort of permanent "journal" could definitely be a useful tool. Because while my other blogs have been for more "personal" or "spur of the moment" writing, a professional blog such as this can serve as so much more than just a repository for random thoughts. It can allow a leader to capture information on particular scenarios that have presented themselves and, hopefully, become a permanent record of how one handled that scenario - as it's likely to arise again at some point. It also allows for a centralized location for the educational leader to reflect on the actions and events of his or her recent or distant past.
The blog can also serve the educational leader in another, less self-centered way. Because the blog can be as public as one might like, the educational leader can also look for, and even solicit, others input into the information that is posted there - allowing the blogger to cultivate an entire cadre of "virtual advisors" who can share their own experience and wisdom with the blogger, thereby allowing him or her to tap on a vast store of experience from both within his or her own school district to as far as the internet can take you.
Finally, the blog allows the educational leader to share his or her own research findings and experiences with others across the internet world. This form of "publication" is both immediate and far-reaching, and allows others to share in the work that the blogger has done. It also can provide immediate feedback as to the validity of such work.
This sort of professional blog is a new thing for me, and one that I hope to rely upon as an aspiring educational leader and as an "active researcher."
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